Jornalismo imersivo : a apropriação da realidade virtual em narrativas imersivas brasileiras.

Abstract

The present research proposes a reflection on the anatomy of the immersive journalistic narratives based on Brazilian productions. To do so, this search intends to check how journalisms appropriates itself of virtual reality- and its resources - to produce this kind of narrative and offer the idea of real sense and empathy for him pretended. To understand this question, were elected as objects of this study the reports São Francisco, um rio que agoniza (R7), Batalha de Mossul (SBT) and the documentary Ocupação Mauá (Tadeu Jungle). Because they are Brazilian journalistic productions in Virtual Reality and their narrative themes are interesting and engaging, because they deal with important issues and require further: a Brazilian’s journalist perspective about the war on Iraq; the routine and organization of the inhabitants of an occupation on São Paulo’s downtown. The research adopts a set of methodology based on three essential steps: 1. the review from the bibliography presented in the two theoretical chapters; 2. the study and the presentation of three audiovisual journalistic narratives that uses virtual reality; 3. the elaboration of analytical categories, emerged from the preliminary exploratory analysis, and applying these to the selected objects. With the objective of offering relevant theoretical basis, the study is dedicated to the definitions and reflections on real, virtual reality, immersion, journalistic immersive narratives, among others, with the approaches of authors such as Slavoj Žižek, Claudio Kirner, Robson Siscouto, Marie-Laure Ryan, Aronson-Rath et al, Luiz Gonzaga Motta, Raquel Ritter Longhi, EvaDomínguez, Nony de La Peña, among others. For that matter, it can be understood that the contents of immersive journalism offer, beyond the sense of real, posssibility of empathy and with it can cause positive impact on important social issues.